| A request for an advisory opinion, submitted by John A. Navy, concerning whether the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics prohibits him from providing job readiness training to Terrebonne High School Students while he is employed as a Guidance Counselor at Ellender High School. |
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Mr. Navy is currently employed as a Guidance Counselor at Ellender High School. He owns a business named Navy Enterprises, LLC D/B/A Job Readiness Solution. He wants to provide Job Readiness Training to students with disabilities who attend Terrebonne High School, where he is not employed. The program is funded by Louisiana Rehabilitation Services, for who he is a certified vendor. Mr. Navy's company, Job Readiness Solution, will provide an instructor to provide those services at Terrebonne High School.
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La. R.S. 42:1111C(1)(a) prohibits a public servant from receiving any thing of economic value for any service, the subject matter of which is devoted substantially to the responsibilities, programs, or operations of the agency of the public servant and in which the public servant has participated.
La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed for nor compensated by any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency; conducts operations or activities which are regulated by the public employee's agency; or has substantial economic interests which may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the public employee's official duty.
La. R.S. 42:1113A(1)(a) states no public servant, excluding any legislator and any appointed member of any board of commission and any member of a governing authority of a parish with a population of ten thousand or less, or member of such a public servant's immediate family, or legal entity in which he has a controlling interest shall bid on or enter into any contract, subcontract, or other transaction that is under the supervision or jurisdiction of the agency of such public servant.
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Adopt the proposed opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
LaToya D. Jordan |
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